I’m getting… bougie Mad Max vibes…? This thought both confuses and amuses me.

Once I was bored so I downloaded a list of the top 100,000 passwords and counted how many have the name “Vlad” in them. It was 400-something I think. The more you know.

I love that the ^ makes the rest of it superscript. Fwiw, using code tags would fix it.

Eh, not as much as you’d think. The back of your neck near the brainstem is crucial to temperature regulation. That’s why the go-to advice to alleviate heat stress is putting something cool like a wet towel around your neck. During midday when the sun is highest, keeping the sun off the back of your neck may well keep you cooler than keeping it off your face. Using your hands to shield your eyes occasionally looks a heck of a lot less dumb than keeping your hands up to shield the back of your neck.

Moral of the story, baseball hats are great for watching baseball, where you’re sitting facing one direction the whole time and can orient them accordingly. For general outdoor work, a sun hat with a neck flap is waaayyy better.

“The Fascist Democrats” has got to be the clearest, most absolutely textbook example of projection I’ve seen yet.

Just because it’s not spelled out, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Critique made without a genuine effort to understand the cultural and historical context isn’t worth much.

Very first commandment (as summarized by Jesus) is “Love the Lord your God.” Combine that with the mandate to Adam and Eve to care for God’s creation, and the core tenant of Judaism that loving God implies obedience, and the concept of respecting that of his creation which bears his image becomes immediately obvious.

Interesting take, and not entirely wrong either imo. Though, I think the real reason is simply that such a commandment wasn’t necessary, because it was already implied from the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve the mandate to care for his creation, and in conjunction with the fact that “Love the Lord your God” is the very first commandment (which means to follow his commandments), respecting the people that God created in his image would have absolutely unquestionable in the mind of the ancient Israelites.

The really hard to accept part is how this respect for what God made included the destruction of what is not of him, which included people. It’s a very alien concept to us today in our culture. The important part is that what you read in the Bible (esp. the Old Testament) cannot be taken at face value. Everything is seeped in historical context that often makes things seem at a glance to be the opposite of what they actually are. The translation from Hebrew and Greek compounds this problem.

TL;DR: If you want to take solace in confirmation bias, it’s not hard to do, and to blame you for doing so would be incredibly hypocritical of me. Remaining truly objective is the most grueling exercise in self-awareness and accepting uncomfortable possibilities anyone could ever undertake.

Not sure how much legality matters anymore, “normalize” or “desensitize” might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that’s an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑

I had a bad feeling Michigan would be too. sigh

Slopturding

or

Turdturfing

That’s what I thought, but then I got it. Here, the headline without amateur word order ambiguity:

Polls show increasing concerns about Trump’s mental acuity

Well yeah, and that’s where things get interesting. Looking at their policy and voting history certainly does matter, and in fact it often is the best way to determine their character.

Unnecessary plot twist:

The doctor is the killer!!! 😱😈😑

Bored of Peace

People are still confused or dismissive whenever I try to explain why I try to vote for character quality over party or policy. sigh

Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌

I can’t help but read MTG as Magic the Gathering and it makes these headlines kinda sorta bearable.

On the flip side, if you still need a power cable anyway, it’s usually way cheaper to bundle the media (and optionally control/network) signals into the same cable than using wireless. (Sidenote: Honestly it’s kinda weird to me that we haven’t seen hardly any of this in consumer spaces. The newer USB-C revisions could easily supply power, display, audio, and network to the average TV over one cable.)

Now, with true wireless power (I’m thinking of this video in particular), that proposition can change dramatically.

I’m proud of them for not giving that a cringe acronym like JUMP, BOOST, EXCEL, or, oh gosh, LEARN. 😵‍💫

I would say on social media we’re surrounded by current fake friends, while IRL we’re surrounded by potential real friends.